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Companies should have a due diligence process to determine the likelihood that their technologies will be used to carry out human rights abuses before doing business with a particular country or distributor.

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Normalization of U.S.-China relations in 1979, combined with economic reforms and opening, transformed the Chinese people's lives.

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One-way monologues through the Voice of America and Radio Free Asia don't have much street cred with China's Internet generation, to be honest.

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It takes a strong stomach and a thick skin to be a female activist fighting online censorship in Pakistan.

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Negative views of Pakistan expressed by prominent members of the global business community are taken more seriously by government functionaries than are appeals by human rights groups.

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As in Pakistan, Tunisian and Egyptian human rights activists are concerned that any censorship mechanisms, once put in place, will inevitably be abused for political purposes no matter what censorship proponents claim to the contrary.

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Human rights in cyberspace are really no different from rights in the physical world.

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As a citizen of a community, if you never vote or engage, don't be surprised when the outcome doesn't serve your interests; you've never done anything to push things in the right direction.

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Microsoft runs the world's biggest blogging platform, MSN Spaces.

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Google transformed the way most of us get our information with a search engine that enables us to find citizen-created media content alongside the work of professionals.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: September 16th, 1969

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